Telangana govt to digitise land records

: With just a few clicks, all details of a particular parcel of land will pop-up on your screen. The Telangana government's ambitious project, which traces the entire history of a parcel of land from the original owner to its current status, hopes to bring in transparency in land records in the next six months.Mungara Sunil | TNN | January 02, 2016, 08:58 IST

HYDERABAD: With just a few clicks, all details of a particular parcel of land will pop-up on your screen. The Telangana government's ambitious project, which traces the entire history of a parcel of land from the original owner to its current status, hopes to bring in transparency in land records in the next six months. As land records in Telangana were not properly maintained by revenue authorities, the state government has taken up digitization of land records in Hyderabad, Warangal and Nizamabad districts on a pilot basis. Based on its outcome, the project would be extended to the remaining Telangana districts.

As part of the project, the Hyderabad district administration has asked tehsildars of the 16 mandals to verify land records available with them, compile it mandal-wise and then start the digitization project. In some mandals, revenue officers were maintaining land records, some pertaining to pre-Independence era.

The tehsildars would compile all details of a parcel of land, from the original owner, extent, year of purchase to number of transactions to its current status.“Revenue officials have to collect all these details and take an image of the land (property). After the exercise, the tehsildar have to compile the data and file a report on land availability ,“ sources in the Survey Settlement and Land Records told TOI.

Hyderabad collector Rahul Bojja has issued instructions to the 16 tehsildars to verify records and then start the digitization process. Though the process of verification began two months ago, it ran into many hurdles. “Now, every parcel of land will be counted and details collected. The tehsildars have been given six months to complete the compilation of land data. After the data is collated, digitisation of the land records will start,“ the official said.

“Once the digitization of land records is completed, it will be linked to the government website for easy access to the general public,“ he added. The Hyderabad district administration hopes to complete the project in six months.